South Carolina Genealogy Trails

Welcome to South Carolina
Genealogy Trails
History Group

My name is Dena and I'm proud to be your South Carolina State Volunteer Host. We are a new website and a group of dedicated genealogist ourselves. Most of us are involved with the very successful "Illinois Trails" Website. Our goal with "Genealogy Trails" is to bring Free, Informative, Genealogical and Historical information throughout each State.

I very much want to make you part of the Website - If you have information that you'd like to share about any town, family, county or subject, please send it to me and I'll make sure it gets posted to the right county. We are looking for Biographies, Obituaries, Newspaper Stories, History and Family stories. Things that you won't find on any other website. Along the way we will acquire Births, Deaths, Marriages, Cemetery Listings and everything in between - things that will be of importance to the South Carolina Researcher. We want to welcome you and hope you will join us as we travel the Trails of our Ancestors through this wonderful state.

South Carolina Counties

ABBEVILLE
AIKEN
ALLENDALE
ANDERSON
BAMBERG
BARNWELL
BEAUFORT
BERKELEY
CALHOUN
CHARLESTON
CHEROKEE
CHESTER
CHESTERFIELD
CLARENDON
COLLETON
DARLINGTON
DILLON
DORCHESTER
EDGEFIELD
FAIRFIELD
FLORENCE
GEORGETOWN
GREENVILLE
GREENWOOD
HAMPTON
HORRY
JASPER
KERSHAW
LANCASTER
LAURENS
LEE
LEXINGTON
MARION
MARLBORO
MCCORMICK
NEWBERRY - Hosted!
OCONEE
ORANGEBURG
PICKENS
RICHLAND
SALUDA
SPARTANBURG
SUMTER
UNION
WILLIAMSBURG
YORK

South Carolina State Page

Military:
Pearl Harbor Muster Roll
Missing Air Crew, WWII
SC Women in the Condederacy
Misc Data:
Atlanta U.S. Federal Penitentiary Records - Inmates Tried in South Carolina Courts - 1902-1922
Alton Prison - some SC Civil War Soldiers who were imprisoned in this Illinois prison

State Data: Hurricane Hugo, USS Pringle
Marriages:
Marriage Annoucements 1766-1782
Pioneers:
Bookman Family
Ship Passengers:
1820 to Port Charleston
VISITORS

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Columbia is the capital.
At the left is the State Capital Building

We need State and County Co-Ordinators
Its fun, informative, challenging and its a great group of people to work with.
If interested - View our Volunteer Information Page and contact me

If you have data you'd like to contribute to any of the South Carolina counties, e-mail me.

You can send your obituaries here
and
Tombstone transcriptions here

Gardens of South Carolina

State Flower - Yellow Jessamine

**** South Carolina's History *****

South Carolina was named to honor King Charles I (Carolus is Latin for Charles).

Following exploration of the coast in 1521 by Francisco de Gordillo, the Spanish tried unsuccessfully to establish a colony near present-day Georgetown in 1526, and the French also failed to colonize Parris Island near Fort Royal in 1562. The first English settlement was made in 1670 at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River, but poor conditions drove the settlers to the site of Charleston (originally called Charles Town).

South Carolina was based on a plantation culture with an aristocratic, wealthy society that was dependent on black slave labor. One of the original 13 colonies, South Carolina was first formed in 1729 when the Carolina colony was divided in two to form North and South Carolina. The attack on Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor launched the Civil War. After the war, the structure of the state changed.

It was admitted to the Union on May 23, 1788 and became the 8th state.

**** State Symbols *****

Mottoes: Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind and resources) and Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope)
Flower: Carolina yellow jessamine (1924)
Tree: Palmetto tree (1939)
Bird: Carolina wren (1948)
Song: “Carolina” (1911)
Nickname: Palmetto State

If you have comments or questions about this site or our project, contact SC Trails State Cordinator Here

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